There are a lot of conflicts between countries every day which affects the inhabitants’ lives. One of these conflicts which have existed many years is conflicts between Israel and Palestine in West Band. Both of Israeli and Palestinian have suffered violence and death every day. Many activists endeavored to solve this problem such as using violence to against violence but this did not work. In 2003, there is a small village which was successful to use non-violent way to solve the conflict between Palestinian and Israeli there. However, this success was not known by others broadly until Julia Bacha showed a documentary film Budrus about this Budrus village. She makes this film because she believes that “at the core of ending the conflict in …show more content…
In “On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence,” he says that people should disobey the wrong laws and wrong government. He appeals everyone to stand up for rights and justice by doing “simple, quiet, truthful carrying on of what you consider good and needful.” The simple, quiet and patient action which Budrus inhabitants considered right is just to stand on the land for building Separation barrier “until we made sure there would be no construction work” (Dalby). They did not use any arms or violence to prevent Israeli soldiers from building the barrier. Moreover, this action exemplifies Tolstoy’s ideas because it does not involve in the Palestinian government. At that time, “while the Palestinian elite attend talks and readily accept painful concessions on settlements" (Cheslow), Budrus resisted Israel consistently and non-violently to keep its land. The Budrus habitants stood up for their own rights as “a rational and free man, and defending them, not as the rights of local boards or committees are defended” (Tolstoy). This did not give the result right away, but it worked after ten …show more content…
When they started to resist Israel soldiers, they knew that they could be arrested, but they were not afraid of this. In fact, Morrar “has spent nearly six years of his life in Israeli prisons” (Bronner). He believes that the national path that he took “has its privileges” (Budrus), but it also has a price. This price is being arrested. However, this price did not stop him from fighting for something good and just because Israel prison “never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses”